HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet'
by
Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she...